Cookie on a stick and asbestos floor tiles.

We took a trip to Ikea Saturday to look at some furniture and some laminate flooring.I have never seen a store so packed with people! We had to drive around the parking lot for about 20 minutes just to find a parking spot. We finally found one back by the freight doors. We are doing some remodeling around here to make room for our next addition.
As we pulled up the carpet we decided the vinyl tiles underneath look ancient. Jerek looked online and they appear to be asbestos tiles. Fun! So we are going with plan B and we will lay the laminate over the vinyl instead of ripping it out first. Here is a picture of our progress so far.



After our shopping the kids were starving so we went to Shari's just down the road. Kids eat free on Saturdays! They give these huge cookies on a stick to the kids with their kid's meal. Tait thoroughly enjoyed his as you can see.

We're having a......

Healthy baby! Sorry, couldn't resist teasing all you who wanted us to find out the sex of our baby.
We didn't, but I do have some sonogram pics to share.
They are a little low quality as I don't have a scanner. I took a picture of each of these with my camera them loaded them on to my computer.


These are of the profile looking at the side of the baby's face.


This is the baby's foot.
This is a head-on look at the face.
Everything looks right on and the baby is perfectly healthy. They did bump up my due date by a week so it is now June 7 instead of May 31. It is a little disappointing to be back a week but I am sure I will survive.

Catching up.

Here are some random pictures of what I have missed over the last weeks of not blogging. I have been too tired and busy to get to it sooner.


This is all the Hodge cousins on Nana's couch. This was taken over Thanksgiving weekend.


This is the birthday cake I made for Hayden's birthday party.
Tait was loving the swings at the pumpkin patch.

The boys with their friend at the pumpkin patch.

Here we go again...

I think the ticker at the top of the blog says it all.

Yarrrrr, and all that....

As it is National Talk Like A Pirate Day, I will take the time to promote an RPG game that we play online called YoHoHo Puzzle Pirates. It is really fun and combines a lot of little puzzle games into an RPG where you play a pirate. You can join a crew, go pillaging on ships, hunt for sea monsters in atlantis and even buy houses, pets and clothing to customize your pirate. If you check it out, look for Rustinsmommy. That's me. =)

www.puzzlepirates.com

My New Friend

So I stepped outside to get the mail today and I saw this.

This spider is probably about 3/4" to an inch across not counting the legs! I hate spiders but I think this one has lived her a while without bothering me. We also have hobo spiders around here. Hopefully this one eats them.

And to counter the ugly, here is a picture of cuteness.

My Grandma passed away last week so my sister came up for the funeral. She and her little boy stayed with us for a few days. Karsten is almost 2 so he and Tait had fun playing together.

County Fair

We went to the Fair last weekend and I never got around to posting pictures from it. Here they are now.



I don't know why Rustin isn't in this picture. He must have been on a ride.


This is the barrel of monkeys at the end of the funhouse ride.



Beep Beep! They loved these cars and the little button that was the horn.


MMMM! Tait gets the leftover cotton candy. I was surprised the kids didn't really love the cotton candy. In fact Jeshua hated it.


Post cotton candy stickiness.